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Subject: Re: ports modifying system setups
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RW wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:14:17 -0800
> Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> ...                         I have for some time wanted to add support
>> to rc.subr for a /usr/local/etc/rc.conf.d so that ports could install
>> sensible defaults for rc.conf, 
> 
> What's the advantage of doing that over having the the  defaults
> in the rc.d script, 

I thought I explained that. The point of this thread was that services
installed by ports are not (any longer?) on by default. What I'm
proposing is a way to allow the user to choose to enable the service
using an OPTION (amongst other things).

Doug

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